The BAT cars according to Cliff Goodall

As a car enthusiast, I tend to look at the sale of the BAT cars at Thursday’s “Modern & Contemporary Art” auction in New York as something very significant for the automobile and the world of collecting as a whole. It should however be remembered that a 1954 table designed by Carlo Mollino, a well-known architect and designer who, among his various projects, created the “Bisiluro” asymmetric car in 1955 that went on to compete at Le Mans, was sold for $6.2 million, three times its estimate and new world record for a piece of design. In my opinion, these are the signs of a natural tendency to meet artistic and design excellence, which, more and more, seems destined to involve the car.